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MARK CHAPTER 15
Mar_15:1-5 Jesus is brought bound and accused before Pilate: his
silence before the governor.
Mar_15:6-15 Pilate, prevailed upon by the clamours of the people,
releases Barabbas, and giveth up Jesus to be crucified.
Mar_15:16-23 Christ is mocked of the soldiers, crowned with
thorns, and led to the place of crucifiction.
Mar_15:24-28 He is crucified between two thieves,
Mar_15:29-32 reviled,
Mar_15:33-37 and calling upon God expires.
Mar_15:38 The veil of the temple rent.
Mar_15:39-41 The centurion’s confession.
Mar_15:42-47 Joseph of Arimathea begs the body, and buries it.
See Poole on "Mat_27:1". See Poole on "Mat_27:2". Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor in Judea at this time, Luk_3:1. The reasons of their carrying Christ to him, when they had condemned him to death for blasphemy, (a crime cognizable before them, as appeareth in the case of Stephen, Act_7:54-60), see in our notes on Matthew. What time in the morning they carried him before Pilate is not said, only John saith it was early, and we read it was about the sixth hour, (that is, with us twelve of the clock), when Pilate dismissed him, being by him condemned; so probably they were with Pilate by six or seven in the morning. This morning was the morning after the evening in which they had eaten the passover, and the first day of their feast of unleavened bread: so little did they regard God’s ordinance.